Linear Collider Detector
For more than a decade, the VISPA group participated in planning for a future e+ e- linear collider, possibly the next major facility for particle physics. Such a facility is well suited to uncovering the details of electroweak symmetry breaking with a low mass Higgs boson, discovered at the LHC in 2012.
ILC accelerator layout
Time projection chamber research
The VISPA group demonstrated, for the first time, the high resolution performance of a time projection chamber with micropattern gas detector readout in magnetic fields, with a small protoype. Other groups around the world have confirmed this, and this type of TPC now forms the central part of the , one of the two detectors being designed for the future collider.
Images from ILC TPC R&D at VISPA
Linear collider workshop
In 2004, the VISPA group hosted an on the future linear collider, attracting more than 150 participants.
D. Karlen, P. Poffenberger, G. Rosenbaum, TPC performance in magnetic fields with GEM and pad readout, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A555 (2005) 80-92.
ILD collaboration, ILD letter of intent (2010)
International Linear Collider Physics and Detectors, 2011 Status Report